JEP proposed to target JDK 11: 318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector (original) (raw)
Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Jan 18 11:09:34 UTC 2018
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On 18/01/18 10:10, Erik Österlund wrote:
I do not feel too comfortable with this being a product flag regardless of the name. There is existing code that assumes that for example System.gc() will actually do something. Similar for assumptions that language features like finalizers and reference objects and queues will do anything at all.
Anybody who relies on finalizers and reference objects and queues to do anything in bounded time is already assuming something not in the spec. They are already lost; Epsilon will reveal to them the depths of their error.
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